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Re: Vote against/for...
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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 17:56:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

If you are white had have money perhaps.

That, my friend, is racism, to which I won't dignify with a response.

That, my friend, shows me that you really can't see the forest thru the trees.
In no way, shape or form is Scott's expression racist.

You, my friend, are wrong.  Making generalizations based upon skin color is the
very definition of racism, no matter what the race.

-John



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(...) So... Sickle cell anemia is racist. Giving birth to same-race children by same-race parents is racist Tendency toward sunburn is racist The greater incidence of lactose-intolerance among Asian ethnicities is racist The physiologic adaptations (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Scott is guilty of many sins, too many to list actually, but that particular observation (that historically, it's went better for you if you're white and well off than if you're not) wasn't racist, per se. If it were, why then, pointing out (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Did you not once say all Palestinians were terrorists? Scott A (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) <snip> (...) That, my friend, shows me that you really can't see the forest thru the trees. In no way, shape or form is Scott's expression racist. It actually shows to me that he sees the inherent racism in the system and tries to point it (...) (22 years ago, 7-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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